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The Best Chicken Tetrazzini Recipe
When you’re cooking for a family, you can never have too many chicken recipes. Chicken is cheap, it’s healthy, and it’s easy to cook in lots of different ways. And chickens are easier on the environment than methane-burping cows, so you can pat yourself on the back for being kind to the earth as well.
Here’s one chicken recipe no busy cook should be without: Easy Chicken Tetrazzini. It’s a delicious, rich casserole with chicken, mushrooms, and pasta in a creamy, cheesy, savory sauce. And it only uses one pan (well, okay, and one mixing bowl), so there are fewer dishes to wash up.
If you’ve seen recipes for chicken tetrazzini before and thought it looked too complicated, don’t worry. We’re not going to mess around with sautéing fresh mushrooms or whipping up a béchamel sauce from scratch. We’re just going to open up a couple of cans of cream soup and whisk them together with sour cream, melted butter, chicken broth, and salt and pepper.
Then we’ll toss all that with the cooked pasta and chicken, top it with cheese, and bake it. And in 45 minutes, we’ll have a version of chicken tetrazzini that’s just as rich and savory as those fancy recipes, and with a lot less work.
How to Make Easy Chicken Tetrazzini
- Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 9×13 baking pan with non-stick cooking spray, set aside. In large bowl whisk together soups, sour cream, butter, chicken broth, salt and pepper until combined.
- Fold in your chicken until coated.
- Add your spaghetti and toss to combine, pour into prepared baking dish and sprinkle with your cheeses.
- Bake in oven for 40-45 minutes until cheese is melted. Remove from oven and sprinkle with parsley if desired.
Tools I used for this Easy Chicken Tetrazzini Recipe
Baking Dish: This dish is safe for microwave, oven, broiler and freezer. It’s also great for storing and reheating leftovers!
Whisk: This trusty whisk is great for many of my recipes!
Spaghetti Spoon: This Spaghetti Server lifts, portions and serves spaghetti, linguini and angel hair pasta.
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Easy Chicken Tetrazzini
Ingredients
- 1 lb spaghetti cooked
- 1 lb chicken cooked and chopped
- 10.5 oz can cream of chicken soup
- 10.5 oz can cream of mushroom soup
- 2 cups sour cream
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese
- 1 cup cheddar cheese
- Parsley optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Spray a 9x13 baking pan with non-stick cooking spray, set aside. In large bowl whisk together soups, sour cream, butter, chicken broth, salt and pepper until combined.
- Fold in your chicken until coated.
- Add your spaghetti and toss to combine, pour into prepared baking dish and sprinkle with your cheeses.
- Bake in oven for 40-45 minutes until cheese is melted.
- Remove from oven and sprinkle with parsley if desired.
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Nutrition Information:
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Sheryl says
This recipe looks awesome. Can’t wait to try it.
One question… The calorie count, is that for the whole recipe or per serving?
Corey says
Per serving. I hope you love it Sheryl!
Nicole says
How did you cook the chicken? Bake or boil it?
Corey says
You can use whatever cooked chicken you have on hand. I usually make a batch in my crockpot, or bake it.
Donna A says
Can you freeze this
Linda Clark says
Do you cover dish while baking?
Corey says
No you do not.
Amber Currie says
Can you just throw everything in the crockpot and cook it? Adding noodles in later of course.
Hannah Avant says
I’ve made it both in the oven and the crockpot and both turned out well! Great recipe!
Joe says
What crockpot setting did you use and for how long? Want to make this tomorrow, but don’t want to use the oven. I live in Palm Springs. Too hot!
Karen says
This recipe was very easy and delicious
Jenni Middleton says
Shared with coworkers and it was a Hit!!!
Mashonda Walker says
I loved how easy this was. My family loved it.
Jackie Moreau says
Loved it! Will definitely make it again. Next time I’ll cut it in half though. The recipe was just too much for me and my husband. But, was delicious!
Bev says
Could this be frozen?
Sarah says
I freeze chicken pasta recipes with no problem!
Trudy says
Could you keep this in the crock pot on warm , without the spaghetti getting mushy? Thinking of making this for Election Day to take for my Workers,do it would have to be in the crock pot from 5 am to 7 pm
Corey says
That should work out ok Trudy. It really depends on how your “warm” setting runs.
Kaylyn Lowery says
I just made this tonight! I shredded my chicken after I baked it in butter and seasonings. I then shredded it and pan fried it. It was amazing will totally be a new favorite.
Shawanda Barnes says
My chicken breast are defrosting right now. I have everything but sour cream so can I leave that out?